Corona Devotionals

No pain, no gain. No guts, no glory.   Put in the work today, and get results tomorrow. Are we talking about hitting the gym?  Lifting weights?  Running sprints or marathon miles?   No--(although) these phrases can apply to our physical disciplines, please be encouraged by the Bible that these (type) of committed phrases can also absolutely apply to our daily spiritual  disciplines to God. God is talking about His sons and daughters  enduring persecution patiently today. God is talking about us  obeying his commands today. God is talking about you and me  maintaining our faith in Jesus  today. This means that God’s holy people must endure persecution patiently, obeying his commands and maintaining their faith in Jesus.   ~Revelation 14:12 He (God) doesn't make it sound easy, and if we are living (outloud) for the Lord, then we know that it is not easy.    We will   endure persecution if we adhere to what ...

Happy Birthday, America. So many things make me proud to live in the Nation that I do, but none more than the reason (Reason!) that our Nation was founded, established and forged: One Nation Under God . Our founders came here from across the pond with very little, and they arrived with even less...and even fewer.   But they had a desire to live free and to worship God freely , and they were determined to not just survive...but to thrive.  The freedoms that we enjoy today  are a direct result of the freedoms that they sought to establish yesterday.   We celebrate July 4th every year in the U.S.A., but much ado has been made about this  year because 2026 marks the 250th birthday of the United States of America officially being unified by the document that holds us together as a Nation, and also sets us apart from any other nation: the Declaration of Independence. Intellect, debates, review, revisions, time, and prayer  went into our Declaration...

I was happily barrelling down a two-lane country road on my way to an appointment when I came up upon a truck towing a trailer of hay bales.  It was  moving slowly.   I had been making good time, but I had to press the brakes for this truck now in front of me. As I began to slow, I looked around.  I was approaching a big farmhouse with fields of crop surrounding it.  It looked so peaceful in the early light of the day.   My slower pace gave me time to take things in, and I let my gaze float to the top of the silo that stood next to their barn.  There was a metal ring that wrapped around the top of the silo, almost like a railing around it, and on top of that silo...on top of that railing...sat a big beautiful bald eagle, peering out at the world, and me. And I was able to glimpse him because a truck full of hay pulled out in front of me and caused me to slow down long enough to take in my surroundings.  I love bald eagles.  I love ...

Let's make a beautiful noise (vocal or instrumental) unto the Lord today.   Why ?   B ecause (at the most base level)...He has delivered us from sin and the power of sin over us.    My lips will shout for joy when I sing praise to you— I whom you have delivered.  ~Psalm 71:23 The beautiful, melodic, special outpouring of sound involved in m aking music (with our voice or with instruments) is special.  It is a gift from God, and while we all have different gifts,  I have to give a shout out today to those who can shout it out in harmony and in key and in pitch.  And, let's say "bravo" to those using a bow across the strings or a puffing into a trumpet, tuba, or flute.   Music brings about something special in our spirit and music has a special place in God's holy heart too.   It must.   Because God includes  music and the sounds of instruments and singing voices regularly, repeatedly, and pur...